Background: The use of process evaluations is a growing area of interest in research groups working on complex interventions. This methodology tries to understand how the intervention was implemented to inform policy and ...

Theory building is one of the most crucial challenges faced by basic, clinical and population research, which form the scientific foundations of health practices in contemporary societies. The objective of the study is to ...

Women have occupied an increasingly prominent position in the contemporary society within active participation in the labor market. The achievements of this professional space by women are fruits of an old and still ongoing ...

Este trabalho apresenta uma abordagem sistemática para a modelagem de várias classes de enfermidade-moléstia-doença, designada como Holopatogênese. Holopatogênese é definido como um processo de sobre determinação de doenças ...

An assessment of changing care and prevention needs in the framework of global public health should not be just a technical exercise of 'standard' demographic and epidemiological analysis; rather, it should also involve a ...

Health actions have a powerful tech no-scientific armory invested in their instrumental success. Conversely, they have a fragile conceptual basis for the understanding and transformation of the practical sense of ...

Complex interventions are needed to effectively tackle noncommunicable diseases. However, complex interventions can contain a mix of effective and ineffective actions. Process evaluation (PE) in public health research is ...

BACKGROUND: Increasing evidence suggests that post-TB lung disease (PTLD) causes significant morbidity and mortality. The aim of these clinical standards is to provide guidance on the assessment and management of PTLD and ...